Comment by maqp
4 months ago
Briar is really interesting from the PoV of its forum and blog features, that try to use the messaging platform as infrastructure to build private services.
There's a lot of discussion about alternatives here so I'm going to drop one more: https://cwtch.im
It has wider range of clients and some unique features, like the ability to run multiple, password protected identities trivially, to appear online selectively.
I just wish one could delete or edit on briar's forums. Without that, I feel like I have to be super careful not to make a mistake, if I want an orderly forum. Also in latest versions the ability to fold forum threads is gone? Makes forums annoying to read. The indentation for a sublevel being sooo thin also doesn't help at all.
Sounds like a cool project, but the name is such a bad idea, despite the cleverness of word choice. An app for a niche use case has it hard enough, doesn’t help that nobody can spell correctly even when reading it.
Oh Cwtch is like Cutch, and like the project says, the word rhymes with "butch".